Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California located at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. The district was the origin of the hippie counterculture, with the beatniks of the 1950s moving to the cheap and underpopulated intersection. During the 1960s, other "bohemians" moved into the neighborhood, and the 1967 "Summer of Love" led to the Haight-Ashbury becoming a symbol of the counterculture movement during the Vietnam War. From 1968 until the late 1970s, the influx of hard drugs and a lack of police presence led to the decline of the area, but it became a home to modern rock dance music and San Francisco comedy in later decades. It had a population of 10,601 people in 2016.